Equus

Push and pull

Last October my husband Kenny and I reluctantly returned from our Pie Town, New Mexico, ranch-in-progress to our Hondo, Texas, property---we had hooves to trim and chores to do. We’ve now been in Texas for six months and counting. Although we are as eager as ever to head back to New Mexico, we’ve had to contend with a few moverelated complications.

Most significantly, the process of sorting through a lifetime of accumulated belongings has proved far more daunting than we’d anticipated. My efforts mainly involve going through boxes of

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